Take Advantage of Modern Perl (Links from the YAPC Talk)

I just gave a talk at YAPC::NA 2009 entitled Take Advantage of Modern Perl. I use an extemporaneous style with terse slides, but I mentioned several modules and links worth exploring. I plan to explain some of those modules in more detail in the future. Until then, here are terse explanations and recommendations.

The SUPER module works around a problem in method dispatch to overridden methods.

The UNIVERSAL::ref module makes the ref() builtin more reliable and allows objects to override what ref() reports for them (good for overloading).

The Time::y2038
module makes your lexical scope in Perl -- regardless of compilation settings
for 32/64 bitness and IV size -- safe for calculating dates and times past
2038. If you don't know what that subordinate clause means, you need this
module. The Time::y2038::Everywhere
module makes these functions safe globally.